[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             NET NEUTRALITY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, as you can see, we have quite a variety 
of issues that we are talking about today. Whether it is the 
President's executive amnesty and overreach, the overreach of the DHS, 
or the veto of the Keystone pipeline, people are concerned about what 
is happening.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to turn our attention to another issue: the 
takeover of the Internet by the Federal Communications Commission. We 
just completed a hearing at the Energy and Commerce Committee on this 
issue. I tell you there is great concern about what the FCC would do 
with the Internet.
  The Internet is not broken, and it does not need the Federal 
Government to fix it. So people are rightfully concerned about that. 
The FCC, in taking control of the Internet, would do a couple of 
things. First of all, it would be a loss of some of our freedoms 
because the FCC would reclassify the Internet to title II. Now, title 
II of the Communications Act is the 1930s-era law that regulates 
telephones and telecommunications. It would thereby subject the 
Internet, which is an information service, to a host of taxes, 
regulation, and international consideration. This is not the direction 
we want to go with the Internet. Let's not use 1930s-era laws on an 
information service. Let's make certain that the FCC delays their net 
neutrality order and that we work together to keep the Internet open 
and free.

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